I experience something similar to OP- I prefer to read erotic literature, and often do it to arouse myself. While not all of it is fanfiction, a lot of it tends to be, and I'm quite wary of unrealistic sex acts and such (especially because what I find arousing is very much NOT possible in real life,...

Thank you, Sam. I try my best taking care of myself. I have a friend who I would be comfortable discussing it with, but I'm still not really sure if I want to tell them. I often feel like I'm bothering my friends, which I know isn't true at all, but it's still hard to shake that feeling. Hopefully a...

Thank you Sam. I read the article and it did make me feel better, especially the part about what rejection means for a breakup. I was blaming myself for what happened, even though it wasn't necessarily my fault. What's most difficult is that I'm also dealing with a depressive episode, and have been ...

i'm apart of a plural system and have quite a few other headmates. while we aren't the same person, we definitely do feel connected, and we really do embody the whole 'sharing a brain' phrase, because we aren't as separate as other systems may be. we share the same core beliefs and tend to have very...

This is a long post because I think all the context is important. Some info: Both of us are systems and are autistic. I will use 'me/I' in order to make this easy to understand, but I really mean 'we' for our entire system. I met my ex in the beginning of 2022, when I was 16 and he was 14, and we di...